“Don’t have $100 shoes and a 10 cent squat” Let’s face it, no one likes to do volume work. No one likes to do heavy weights for multiple reps. We all just want to get straight to the point and go for a new
Read more →“Find your weaknesses, make friends with them, then beat them to death” This is one of my favorite quotes. Weaknesses are building blocks to our lives. Every weakness defeated is one step closer to our goals. That goal can be anything from a 700# back
Read more →Well it’s summertime again and just like in previous years, parents are racing around town trying to get from one child’s practice to the next. This is a great thing, although maybe not for a parent’s sanity. As we enter this summer my warning to
Read more →I can’t believe it has taken me this long to write a blog on this topic: the mentality of many CrossFit athletes. I am not attacking the sport aspect of CrossFit, this is my sport after all. Too often, however, we see athletes that will sacrifice everything
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One of the best books I have ever read, when it comes to strength training, has been “Supertraining” from Mel Siff. One of the quotes attributed to Dr. Siff that really stuck out to me is, “You don’t train minimally, you don’t train maximally, you train
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Today’s blog is going to talk about youth athletes and how they should train for “sport”. Let’s talk about what I mean by “sport”. Sport is referring to any specific sport weather that be football, baseball, soccer, etc. Now let’s talk about what I mean by “youth
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Why do some athletes achieve high levels of sports results and some do not? This is a question I am often asked. “Matt why can’t I do a kipping pull up?”, “Matt my snatch technique sucks”. These are comments I often hear from many different athletes. Why
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It’s been an amazing week for Team DCL Weightlifting. I had the privilege of taking Danielle and Makinley to the USAW 2016 National Youth Championships and our girls performed phenomenally over these past few days. Over the weekend I had made several observations of the future of
Read more →Breathe People…Breathe!! Proper Breathing Mechanics for Weightlifting and Metabolic Conditioning Dcl Blog #3 – February 17, 2016You have to breathe!!! From the day we are born, we have involuntary muscle movements. Our body is born knowing how to do certain things. It knows how to pump blood
Read more →Importance of box jumps in explosive training. Matt Biolsi DCL Blog #2 It’s time to clear up some misconceptions of explosive training. Lately, I’ve been working with a couple of rugby athletes and they were asking me to help improve their “explosive power”. Even though I
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